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COMMISSION: Harrison Birtwistle

Thu 13 Jun 2013 19.30

Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh

Event Price: £10 - £22 (Under 27s half price)

Join us at Aldeburgh Festival for the world premiere of RPS Honorary Member Sir Harrison Birtwistle's new song cycle to words by poet David Harsent.
This is one of the specially commissioned works celebrating the RPS Bicentenary. You can read more about our Bicentenary Commissions here.Britten: Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Harrison Birtwistle: Songs from the same Earth - world premiere*
Mark Padmore - Tenor
Till Fellner - Piano
* 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society / Britten-Pears Foundation commission to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten and the bicentenary of the foundation of the Royal Philharmonic Society.